Bill Gates is not a Computer Manufacturer. So, he hasn't manufactured any computers. However, he is the head/founder of Microsoft Corporation that is the owner of the Windows Operating system.
Bill Gates had nothing to do with the hardware of the Altair - it was Forrest Mims III and Ed Roberts who decided to put together the 8080 based kit.Microsoft supplied the programming interpreter for it, Altair Basic. He and Paul Allen moved from Harvard (Boston, Mass) to Albuquerque, New Mexico to work with MITS (the company making the Altair.).
Never, he dropped out from Harvard, moved to NM, and wrote Altair BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800 kit.
Henry Edward Roberts designed the Altair 8800 personal computer. This very computer inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to enter the software business.
Bill gates used the language BASIC for a computer programming language for Altair Basic.
Altair
MITS designed the Altair 8800 computer kit using the Intel 8080 microprocessor. Bill Gates was at Harvard at the time and recognized an opportunity to sell software for the new machine, so he wrote a BASIC interpreter for the machine, dropped out of college, and started his business!
No. BASIC was the brainchild of John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz in 1964. Bill Gates' contribution, along with Paul Allen, was to develop a BASIC interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 in 1975.
Altair BASIC
1974 I remember it very clearly as I spent the first half of 1975 helping my senior year High School electronics instructor assemble one. Unfortunately I never got a chance to see if it ran or not as I graduated and left for College before we were able to finish assembling the kit.
Bill Gates has been well known for his invention primarily on the software side of things. He has of course created Microsoft Windows, which started out as a command line operating system, or what many people know as DOS. It then grew into a GUI operating system, and so on and so forth. Bill Gates, early on, created the first spreadsheet program, which later turned into Excel (then the Microsoft Office package), giving Microsoft a foot in the business industry as well.
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates was created in 1998.
Bill Gates' flower fly was created in 1997.
One of his accomplishments were that in 1975, he wrote the first versatile, Altair BASIC, that became industry standard